- Frontier and pioneer life, Natural history, Pioneers, Biography
Reminiscences of Alaska told from a woman's angle go back to the steamboat, goldmining days of 1911 when the writers's stepfather became Assistant US Attorney and the family moved from Seattle to Fairbanks.
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Earnest, classical in form, warm and resolved.
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- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret E. Murie
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 369
- Publisher
- Alaska Northwest Books, Knopf, Alaska Northwest Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780882404950
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